Editor's Notes to Volume 15 Number 2

Violence - the Stages, the Struggle, the Spiral

Resources for Those Working for the Prevention of Violence

Dr. Mary Heidkamp
Office for Ministry of Peace/Justice
P.O. Box 1979
Chicago, IL 60690

Chairs an anti-violence working group of individuals from agencies and parishes. They search the question of "What should the Archdiocese do about urban violence that parishes and agencies cannot do?"

National Crisis Prevention Institute
3315-K North 124th Street
Brookfield, WI 53005

Markets a five volume training video to empower school staffs against violence.

Fred D. Smith
Interfaith Health Program
One Copenhill
Atlanta, GA 30307

Positive speaker on issues of violence.

Educators for Social Responsibility
23 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

Produces materials and runs training sessions on non-violent behavior.

Vigil against Violence
5600 So. Woodlawn Ave.
Chicago, IL 60637

Rev. Susan Johnson coordinates a group of people who gather at sunset once a month to call out the names of the victims of violence in Chicago. Involved in other activities as well.

Confronting a Culture of Violence

A pastoral message approved by USCC Nov. 94 available as publ. no. 028-1. Office/Publishing/Promotional Services United States Catholic Conference Washington, D.C. 20017

Peace Education Foundation
1900 Biscayne Boulevard
Miami, FL 33132-1025

Materials for teaching non-violence.

Announcement

Stauros, USA, is happy to announce the publication of Flavian Dougherty, CP, Stauros in Chicago, 1981-1989 by Rian Clancy, CP. This memoir chronicles the life of Flavian Dougherty, CP, during his years as the first Director of Stauros, USA. The book recounts Flavian's coming to Chicago in 1981 through his painful leaving nine years later. The striking pictures in this memoir speak powerfully of a man of great human personality and love. Fr. Flavian was rooted in a traditional spirituality that saw the sick, the mentally and physically disabled as part of the mystery of God, as souls chosen by God. Here in Chicago, Flavian underwent a great conversion. He steeped himself in the ways in which Jesus opened a whole new world to the visually impaired, the hearing impaired, persons with disabilities. Flavian came to see that they must be fully accepted in the world, in the Church. He attributed his conversion to those who were physically disabled. They opened for him a new world of compassion, joy and dynamic life styles. Hopefully those reading this book will find something of the joy and the sorrow of the hundreds who knew and experienced this Passionist man. Fr. Clancy presents us with a vibrant, alive, loving, charismatic man--Father Flave, the embodiment of Stauros. This book is available by writing to the Stauros office in Chicago. A free will offering to cover printing, handling and postage is suggested.